Happy Thursday! Are you happy that hump day is over? I know I am!
I am so happy that is one day closer to Christmas! I just wish we could make some plans already. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
I started yesterday off when a couple hours of work and then we were off to to the gym.
I took the time to plan out a spin workout, but as I started to get into I realized it wasn’t going to happen. I don’t know about you but sometimes I just have days where I don’t want to think. I don’t want to keep up with a workout I simply just want to do. That is exactly what I did. After I finished my warm up I spent most of the time doing 1 minute on followed by 3 minutes off. It was enough of an interval to keep me focused, but not too much where I had to constantly keep up.
The first half of my spin workout consisted of the 1 x 3 intervals and ended with a 15 minute cool down. I got to 99 minutes and noticed that Wes hadn’t finished his run yet. I decided to keep going and take it easy until I saw Wes was finish.
I continued for 20 more minutes and still no sign of my husband. I decided 2 hours was MORE than enough to be on the spin bike and called it a day.
I was pretty exhausted when I finished.
When we got home Wes said he had a Christmas present he wanted to go ahead and give me. Wes has always been bad about waiting to give gifts. As soon as a gift comes in he wants to give it to me. Thankfully we tend to give our presents early since we are usually traveling for Christmas.
Isn’t she beautiful? I have been on the hunt for a new purse for a while, but honestly just stopped looking because it wasn’t really important and in the budget. I am not a girl who changes her purse often, I usually pick a neutral purse so that I can carry it everywhere.
Even though Wes had gotten my Christmas present, we still had not gotten any of our shopping done so we got dressed and heading out to get some things accomplished.
After an evening of shopping I’d say we are about 70% done. I am happy with that because it is better than where we were at! We only have about 3-4 more things to get then I have to get to wrapping!
We did stop for a little frozen yogurt break during our shopping. I had to refuel of course!
Okay now I need your help. Since we are on a tight budget for Christmas this year on top of the gifts we are getting I am going to be doing some baking.
I found this recipe today that I am going to be using:
Peanut Butter Cookies with Cranberries and White Chocolate
I need 2-3 more so that I can get a nice variety. I thought I would enlist your help since I am looking for some new ideas this year and don’t want to make my normal recipes.
I have a sweet and simple recipe coming up for you this afternoon! Check back later!
What are you favorite Christmas cookies? (Provide link or recipe please!!)
Totally love that bag! I am both patient and linear (and anal) so I can totally wait.
I totally get the ‘just want to DO’ exercise thing! I have planned my whole winter that way around the extreme cold. You observed I’m a bit nuts that I run in anything, but when it is really cold I don’t want to think, just run! So I have a preset 6.75mi course. I will change it up over the next several days while it is warmer, but sometimes mindless is good! 🙂
Not sure if you saw any of our cookies on Instagram, but we had a great time last weekend! Mocha slices (mocha cookies partially dipped first in dark chocolate then milk chocolate), Peppermint Pinwheels (sugar cookie dough and peppermint flavored red sugar cookie dough spiral rolled together), gingerbread, and grasshopper cookies (basically whoopie pies with green peppermint buttercream filling). None of these recipes are online, they come from a cookie book we got for an engagement gift back in the stone ages and have been slightly tweaked through the years.
I did see your cookies they all looked GREAT! I am going to be baking up a storm tonight so we will see what happens! Hopefully it call comes out well! 🙂
Hope you enjoy your warmer weather running! It is supposed to be nice here too but we will be leaving Saturday, oh well! I am perfectly OK with that! 🙂
I am probably of no help…my kids like the “usual” peanut butter cookies with Hershey kiss, puppy chow, sugar cookie cutouts, and the puff popcorn used to make caramel corn…recipe on back of bag. 😉
I love that purse! No help here on the cookies I’m afraid, husband is more of a brownie guy and I’m a cake kind of girl so I haven’t made cookies in years. If you ever need a cake recipe though, I can hook you up 😉
My husband loves brownies as well! I love cake but he isn’t a fan so I rarely make it because I would be the only one eating it and that’s dangerous! If you have any good recipes though you are WELCOME to pass them along! 🙂
Very cute purse! Your husband has good taste:)
I have made 2 kind of cookies recently: chocolate mint chip http://www.bakeaholicmama.com/2011/11/chocolate-andes-mint-chip-cookies-and.html and oatmeal chocolate chip http://hipfoodiemom.com/2013/05/31/honey-oatmeal-chocolate-chip-cookies/ (but instead of 3 sticks of butter I used 1 and a half sticks of butter and 6oz of plain greek yogurt).
Those all look great! 🙂 Thank you! I will have to keep them in mind!
OOOO That Kate Spade is PURRRRRDYYY! I am such a purse and shoes girl, screw clothing… I will tote a cute purse around while wearing sweats, I don’t care – lol! Makes me feel FANCY!
And YAY! I am posting a sugar, wheat, dairy, gluten, soy, nut and fruit free XMAS cookie recipe on Tuesday!! 😀
Oooh that sounds amazing! I am going to have to check it out!
Congrats on getting your shopping mostly done! I am curious to see what you got for Wes … I have gotten Kevin some small things but am really struggling!! Also … did you do 55 miles in 2 hours? If so, that is ridiculously fast!!